Gestão do conhecimento na EaD corporativa: tensões e possibilidades da transferência do conhecimento tácito nas comunidades e redes sociais

Abstract

From the mid 20th century the merely material resource has been no longer considered as the richest source of an institution or society to give way to the overestimation of the intellectual assets. This paradigm alternation caused the corporate within the concern of developing strategies and management tools that were able to provide an appropriate means for the generation and socialization of organizational knowledge. In the "society of the new economy," based on the valuation of intangible assets, the management of tacit knowledge, highly personal and subjective, is designed as an important tactic to provide competitive advantage to the company, including those that provide educational services, giving you innovation status headed to the future. One of the strategies suggested by the literature is to create social networking sites aimed at expanding and increasing the interaction between the participants in the knowledge sharing process and exchange of experiences for the arrest of collaborative social learning. Therefore, we sought to examine in this research through a particular case study, is an important and renowned higher education institution (HEI) active in online distance education segment meets the idiosyncratic and organizational factors relevant to the transfer of tacit knowledge, as well as provides the entered teaching in the virtual community of teachers (VCT) a favorable setting for such. This study is based on plentiful and consistent bibliographic apparatus on (i) knowledge; (ii) knowledge management and (iii) networks, virtual and new social learning and objective communities confront the theoretical inflections presented with analyzes quantitative and qualitative data collected from the selected sample unit in an attempt to provide clarifications able to meet the assumptions made in the research.